Gingrich & Romney: The Tale of the Intensity Chart
A very interesting chart by Gallup measures the intensity of support of Republicans of their candidates for the presidency. It takes the positives and deducts the negatives. Since July the…
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TODAY IN HISTORY: ANNIVERSARY OF ‘THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES’ ********** It was today in 1859 that Charles Darwin published ‘The Origin Of Species’. It can be argued that this has…
The Case Newt Gingrich could make to beat President Obama
Don’t write off The Newt as a possible president come 2012. He has baggage, and lots of it (but not that much of import compared to a sitting president and…
Newt Gingrich leaves The Clowns in his dust
It’s taken a long time, but finally Republican voters have sifted through the hapless gang who wish to be their nominee to take the presidency from Obama, and are moving…
United Republic: Creative Organization Grows from OWS
Democracy takes time, and it’s rough and tedious work, so it’s amazing that in the two short months since the Occupy Movement began an organization has sprung up that will…
Food Politics and American Elections
I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one…
Food Politics and American Elections
I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one…
Food Politics and American Elections
I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one…
Food Politics and American Elections
I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one…
Occupy A Job
There is no shortage of angry people with no civics training, calling for Occupy Regina (Wall Street) protesters to “get a job”. As an Occupy Regina protester, I have a…
USA Can be 100% Powered by Geothermal Energy
Here at Things Are Good we like geothermal energy and countries that use it. The USA could be on the list in the future! Researchers from SMU that have received…
America will benefit if the Supercommittee deadlocks and November 23 passes
Unable to reach agreement on what to cut and by how much, the American governmental Troika (the House, the Senate and the President) struck a Supercommittee consisting of 12 members…
Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians…
Aid blackmail in Palestine
Aid blackmail in Palestine - Opinion - Al Jazeera EnglishExcerpt:Once again, Palestinians are being punished for daring to exercise a choice.It happened before in 2006, when they took part in…
Why I Am Going to Attend Occupy Vancouver
I am white, middle class, educated and, by all accounts, an extremely fortunate woman. I live in Canada where my parents’ (sometimes life-threatening) health issues are covered by a provincial…
Feingold gets it: The message of OccupyWallStreet is that people have been ripped off
At last someone has dug down to the root of the swell of public protest that has manifested itself in the OccupyWallStreet movement:Feingold rejected the argument — made even by…
The Heart of OccupyWallStreet
The British are deft with words – is every Briton born a wordsmith? – and today The Guardian has come close to defining the heart of the American Spring now…
Who will nail OccupyWallStreet’s theses to the door of modern capitalism?
A pretty fast trajectory for a movement that many dismissed as nonsensical last week:After a weekend growth spurt, the New York financial district sit-in “Occupy Wall Street” has blossomed into…
The Cat supports Occupy Wall Street, the revolution that won’t go away
Michael Moore paid the protestors a visit, and on television was asked what he wanted. I want to see those responsible for the mess doing the perp walk, he said.Michael…